Kindergarden Seasons and Weather

Seasons and Weather: Supplemental Guide 1A | What’s the Weather Like? 27

Another characteristic of winter is going sledding. Turn to your

partner and tell about a characteristic of summer.

[Allow fifteen seconds for students to talk. Call on two partners to share.]

Turn to your partner and tell about a characteristic of winter.

[Allow fifteen seconds for students to talk. Call on two partners to share.]

The seasons are different depending on where you live. Not all places

get snow in the winter, and not all places are very hot in the summer.

But one thing is for sure: no matter where you live, the seasons

always change in the same order, year after year.

[Have students name the seasons with you in order as you point to the

corresponding picture of each season in the image: winter, spring, summer, and

autumn.]

 Show image 1A-13: Seasons diagram

When something happens over and over again in the same order,

it’s called a cycle.

[Trace the cycle of seasons in the image as you read about it.]

Every year the cycle of the seasons begins in winter, followed by

spring, summer, autumn and back to winter.

[Have students practice saying the cycle of the seasons while drawing an

imaginary circle in the air.]

I’ll be talking about my hometown, Washington, D.C., but the

characteristics of the four seasons where you live might be a little

different. It will be fun to see if the weather where you live is similar to

or different from the weather where I live throughout the seasons.

I’ll say goodbye for now, but I will write another letter again soon. Until

then, I hope you are enjoying beautiful weather where you live!

You r f r ie n d,

Annie